Solaris 10 on Ultra 10 Sparc

I tried to install Solaris 10 on my Ultra 10, and there seemed to be 2 partitions, each of which had ~4100 MB, which is not e enough for Solaris 10 (requires about 5GB).
During install, there was about 4096 MB allotted to a */ partition and 4096 allotted to a / partition. The auto-layout method would not let me collapse the two. Is there a workaround, or should I just plug in a new SCSI. Last, since the Ultra is IDE, can't I just install an IDE SCSI from a local computer store?
Thx,
lep

morgair suggested:
" +If you are going to invest in an IDE you can get a decent one with 200+ GB for about 60 to 70 dollars.+ "
That's all fine and good, but your Ultra 10's onboard IDE controller is not 48bit capable.
It wil not recognize more than 137GB of such a drive.
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm
For internal disks in such a system
(designed in 1997, first shipped in 1998 and EOL'd in 2002)
I suggest you stay with 120GB or smaller drives.
Additionally, if the OBP is down-rev,
you'll have problems having it recognizing drives of "today's" sizes.
Consider:
Install a core Solaris 10 to the 8GB disk.
Get something+ functional.
Update the OBP from that OS environment.
Then replace the disk with something larger
and reinstall to whatever you want to do.
You could take the 8GB and slave it as a data disk in some PeeCee, somewhere.

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